Valve co-founder and president Gabe Newell has purchased a waterfront estate in Manalapan, Florida, for $70.8 million. The reported 20,000-square-foot residence sits on a 2.06-acre plot and includes an outdoor pool, a dock and a boat lift. Big purchases aren't new to the father of

Security researchers at Kaspersky say malware is being distributed through animated desktop wallpapers on Steam Workshop’s Wallpaper Engine, with multiple infected packages downloaded thousands of times. Kaspersky included screenshots of several affected wallpapers, many depicting blushing anime women. Wallpaper Engine supports application-based wallpapers that can run executable programs on

The latest update to Firefox for Android brings three notable features: tab groups, a redesigned Settings screen, and a Blocked Tracker Widget. Tab groups, already available on desktop, arrive on mobile via version 152, letting you organize related tabs into named, color-coded groups that can be closed to save space

When Dispatch launched on Nintendo Switch in January 2026, it arrived with big black boxes censoring things like butt cracks, Toxic's free-flying green dong, and even Sonar giving Robert the middle finger. Developer AdHoc Studio has released a free update that tones down that censorship and apologized for

Screenshots of an Intel presentation shared by Hardwareluxx show the company's 18A-P process has entered risk production. Intel describes 18A-P as backwards compatible with Intel 18A, meaning fabs, machinery and chip designs do not need to change. The slides list several improvements: 18% lower power at iso-performance; 9%

Although Prime Day deals don’t officially start until next week, discounts are already live on Amazon. The Nothing Headphones (a), normally $199, are currently 24% off for Prime members, bringing the price down to $151. How long the sale will last is unclear. The headphones stand out for their

Pokémon Champions arrived on Android and iOS devices on Wednesday. The free download includes in-app microtransactions and is a battle-focused spin-off that recalls the Pokémon Stadium games. The game uses turn-based battles rather than the real-time system introduced in Pokémon Legends: Z-A. Players "recruit" Pokémon with in-game currency

Porsche has upgraded the infotainment system in the MY27 Taycan with software we’ve already seen in the electric Macan and Cayenne. The hardware in the Porsche Communication Management module is much faster than before (up to five times), and there are more customizable widgets and an onboard personal assistant.

Amazon Prime members can currently buy a Star Wars Echo Dot bundle at 30% off, dropping the price from $110 to $77. The discount applies only to Prime accounts, and it’s unclear how long the price cut will stick around. The bundle centers on the Echo Dot, a compact

Rising Raspberry Pi prices pushed me to try a cheaper board for an ad-blocking project. An ESP32-S3 can act as a DNS sinkhole, stripping out ads before they are downloaded, and you can pick one up for under $10 (the cheapest way is often a 3-pack for $20). What you

Gabe Newell has purchased a $70 million mansion in Florida. The 20,000 square foot house is described as modestly appointed despite its size. The property includes an outdoor pool, a wellness wing, a wine cellar, a dock with a boat lift, and a tunnel that connects the house to

With Prime Day approaching, Logitech has cut the price on a Genshin Impact–themed tenkeyless keyboard to $70 — a 56% discount and the lowest price seen for this model. The discounted unit is the G515, not the G515 Rapid TKL. It swaps rapid trigger switches for brown tactile switches, but

Amazon is selling the Samsung T7 Portable SSD for $190, marked down $85 from $275 — a 31% discount. The T7 is the compact NVMe drive in Samsung’s Portable SSD lineup and upgrades the T5’s interface to USB 3.2 Gen 2, roughly doubling transfer speeds. Read speeds reach

Extensive testing of dozens of portable chargers reveals which models live up to their claims. Tests measure capacity and power output, check water resistance and durability, and include extended day-to-day use to confirm real-world performance. The Anker Nano 10,000 mAh is the pick for most people: portable, solidly built,

Researchers at Sonatype found about 1,500 malicious packages in the Arch User Repository. The Arch team urged users to review all PKGBUILD and install script changes when updating and to report suspicious commits via the aur-general mailing list. The AUR lets developers make software available before it reaches Arch’

Pylon CEO Marty Kausas faced a choice: scale back token spending or stomach a $1.4 million bill. He realized the company was nearing 150 employees on its Anthropic plan, a threshold that would more than triple costs, so he declared the era of unlimited spending over and set ceilings

The memory supply crisis is driving up SSD prices, leaving many gamers reluctant to upgrade storage. Even older titles can swell with files when refreshed with path-traced lighting, but the RTX Remix 1.5 update may help ease that burden. RTX Remix is Nvidia's open-source modding platform for

Testing the iOS 27 developer beta revealed several smaller changes that received little WWDC attention but can noticeably improve older iPhones. A new Save Video Frame option extracts a photo from any playing video via the three‑dot menu. The extracted images are compressed — screenshots ranged from about 6MB to

The Autonomous ErgoChair Ultra 2 is a well-built office chair that works for a full day of work and an evening of gaming. Its polymer ‘spine’ and flexible mesh back mould to the sitter, providing solid support without fiddly dials or levers, and the absence of a metal frame keeps

AnduinOS 2.0 beta is available after what the developer describes as a ground-up architectural rewrite. The team says it reimagined how the distribution is built, distributed and maintained in response to community feedback. The release is assembled within a sandboxed debootstrap and chroot pipeline and uses a proprietary XML-based

The Path of Exile 2 1.0 release date isn't set precisely, but Grinding Gear Games is aiming to ship the full update before the end of the year. Early access began on December 6, 2024, so the target roughly aligns with that two-year anniversary and would deliver

The Sony Inzone H6 Air trades wireless convenience for a sound-first approach, repackaging many of the same 40mm driver components and open-back design found in Sony’s MDR‑MV1 headphones and adding a detachable microphone and EQ profiles aimed at FPS and RPG players. Priced at $199.99 / £179.99,

The Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Plus with subwoofer has been reduced from its usual $375 price to $240, a 36% discount available to Prime members. The offer is part of Amazon’s early Prime Day deals and is likely to be temporary. Setup is simple: plug in the units, position

PC players can now get native DualSense audio and haptics through the DSX v3.2 Beta 01 update, which adds a "Virtual DualSense with Audio" feature that works over Bluetooth or USB. Historically using a DualSense on PC meant a wired connection or a fiddly Bluetooth adapter, and

Amazon has cut the price of the Lenovo IdeaPad 1i to $300 from $1,100, a 73% reduction ahead of Prime Day. It is the lowest price the model has reached on the retailer, making it a notable option for buyers seeking an affordable Windows laptop for work or school.